XGetXCBConnection(3)

XGetXCBConnection3

Get the xcb connection for an xlib display

Usage

#include <X11/Xlib-xcb.h>

xcb_connection_t *XGetXCBConnection(Display *dpy);

Arguments

dpy

Specifies the connection to the X server.

Overview

The XGetXCBConnection function returns the XCB connection associated with an Xlib Display. Clients can use this XCB connection with functions from the XCB library, just as they would with an XCB connection created with XCB. Callers of this function must link to libX11-xcb and a version of Xlib built with XCB support.

Releases

10 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); the text changed 9 times.

  1. 5.0
  2. 6.0
  3. 7
  4. 8
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  9. 13
  10. Arch

From libx11 1.8.14-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.